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4 Cljc|flcrmng|lctos Morning News Bunding, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST' 31, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. *"he Mosninh News is published erery d*v in Use year, and is served to subscribers in the city, fcy newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count at 2." ceijts a week. If lO' a month, 00 for she months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning Nines, by mail, one month $1 00: three months, $S 60; six months, $a 00; one vear. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times n week (without Sundav issue), three months, *2 00: six months. $4 (io odo year. $ 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Tbura days and Saturdays, thrt*> months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $6 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail . one year. Si 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order. checK or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising: rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Mornino News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates mad** known on application Index to new advertisements. Meetings —Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. TA NARUS.; Eureka Lodge No. 1, F. A. M. Special Notice —Dr. Ix*Hardy*s Removal; To Consignees per schooner Welcome R. Beebe: To Traveling Men; Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert at Theatre. Blackberry Juice— A. Ehrlich & Bro., Sole Agents. A Specialty—Davis Bros. Sealed Proposals For Putting in Iron Grat ings Etc. Cheap Column Advertisements -Help Want ed: Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale: Personal; Strayed; Miscellaneous. Legal Notice— Application for Divorce. Steamship Schedule Ocean Steamship Com pany: Baltimore Steamship Company. The Great Southern Portrait Company -14. B. Davis, Secretary and Manager. Pianos and Organs— L. <SI 11. S. M. H. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE— Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE— -1&8UFI) o.\ HF.PTEMBER 3d. IHB7. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily and Weekly News will be issued Sept. 3. It vriil contain a complete and comprehensive review of the trade of the city for the past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everythin* that helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and the different branches of the city's wholesale trade will he so presented as to give a clear idea of the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1. The buainess men of Savannah cannot make a ■ better investment than by buying copies of tho Mousing News Annual Special Edition and send in* them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containing an accurate account of the business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy and activity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer chant. manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure. should feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in present in* to the world the Inducements which it offers to those who are Beeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will he sent to all sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of ext ra copies will lie mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will (ind this Special Edition of great value, and space in its columns can be ob tained upon application to the Business Office. More than 300,000,000 a/'res of the public domain hare been given to the railroads. Canadian Knights of Lalsvr threaten to swede from the general order and sot up for themselves. A convention has beenYalled to consider the subject. The Reading railroad, that football of Stock Exchange speculators, has been doing so well lately that a dividend of ti per cent, will probably be paid soon. Dr. McGlynn seems to know how to enjoy himself like an ordinary everyday citizen. A newspaper speaks incidentally of his attendance on a game of l>all Saturday. The Socialists of New York say they in tend to nominate John Svviuton in opposi tion to Henry George for the office of Secre tary of State, and claim that he is willing to make the race. The New York Stock Exchange is feeling the competition of the numerous bucket shops so keenly that a movement has been ioaugnrnted to suppress them. Distriot Attorney Mart.ine and Inspector Byrnes are enlisted in the cause. The Bishop of liondon recently denounced the ballet dancers at the Crystal Palace. They have replied in an indignant card in the newspapers, denying ills lordship’s charges that they lead improper lives, and saying they are memliers of his own church. There seenis to be a persistent effort on the part of certain of the New York papers to work up sympathy for Jacob Sharp. Following symjmthetic accounts of the old man’s phvsical sufferings conies a report that his mind has given way under his troubles and that be is insane. It is reported tliat Mrs. Cleveland pro poses to write an article for ono of the lend ing magazines. If she attempts anything of that sort the President, in all proliability, will exercise his veto power. He had enough of the literary businews in the White House when Miss Cleveland directed his household. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, he of the three palsies notoriety, says that he will keep his mouth shut while he is commander of tho Grand Army, but he intimates that he ex pects to resign from tliat position shortly for no other reason than that he may give vent to his |ient-up feelings. He ought to resign at onoe. The pressure of his feelings may endanger his life. It is said that another treaty dealing with the extradition of criminals, a modification of that rejected by the Hennte last winter, ha* lieeu agreed upon by representatives of the United Htates and Great Britain. It is understood that Canada is tired of being made the dumping ground of American thieves, and has urged on tite home goveru want a speedy settlement of disputed point*. An Important Convention. The Pennsylvania Democratic State. Con vention meets at Allentown to-day, and it is expected that it will be one of the most interesting Ilemocratic conventions that ever assembled in that State. Compara tively little attention has thus far been paid to the candidates. Everybody is thinking and talking about the pkitform. It is understood that the friends of the national administration intend to make an effort to commit the convention to revenue refonn. Of course Mr. Ran dall will be present, and will resist with all his skill and power any such effort. He will try to hold the party in the position it has always occupied on the tariff, and if he fails there will be good reasons for conclud ing that his influence in the State is on the wane, and that his political career is near its end, unless he changes his views on the tariff, or becomes an outspoken Republi can. There is considerable doubt as to whether the friends of the administration can control the convention to the extent of securing a revenue reform platform. There has un doubtedly been a great change among the Democrats of Pennsylvania on the tariff issue. There are thousands of tariff re formers now where there were only hun dreds a few years ago. The workingmen have begun to see that protection does them no good, and they have come to believe that in many respects it is a positive injury to them. Mr. Randall, however, is still a power in the State. It is pretty safe to say that a majority of the Federal officers of the State are his friends. The machine is his, and he has not hesitated to use it. His friends in office have been vory active in the selection of delegates in the different counties, and it would not he at all surprising if it should be found that he lias control of the conven tion. He is a shrewd worker, and know ing of the purpose of the tariff reformers to have the convention adopt a tariff reform platform, if possible, he has left no stone unturned to defeat them. In the ranks of the tariff reformers are some very influential men, but their forces are not organized. If they hail a strong leader who could unite and harmonize them they would stand an excellent chance of winning a victory. In fact, they may be victorious unorganized as they are. If Pennsylvania Democrats were to de clare for revenue reform, the opposition to it among Democrats in Congress would almost wholly disappear. Mr. Randall, without any backing from his own State, would quietly drop out of his position qs a leader, and his following would desert him. The present House would pass a tariff reform bill soon after tho mooting of Congress. It can lie readily seen, therefore, that the interest in the convention which meets at Allentown to-day is not confined to Pennsylvania Loan Companies and Usury. The decision which United States District Judge Speer rendered a couple of weeks ago relative to the usurious interest of a loan company, a synopsis of which was published in our dispatches, will cause some of the loan companies to change their methods of doing business, or to be satisfied with the legal rate of interest. There was, of course, no new principle established by the decision. I'he facts of the case that was tried by J udge •Speer showed that the parties who loaned the money charged 8 per cent, interest for it—the legal rate —and accepted the greater part of the commission of 25 per cent., which the agents of the borrowers, and, ap parently, also of the lenders, had charged for negotiating the loan. If the agents had representisl tho borrowers only, and had retained the whole commission, the decision would have been different. The lenders, however, were guilty of accepting usury when they took a part of tho 25 per cent, commission. They attempted to evade tho law and failed. These loan companies have hundreds of thonsands, and perhaps millions, of dollars loaned out in this State. The borrowers under the influence of this decision may, iu many instances, refuse to pay the lenders any more than the amount actually received by them, together with 8 l>er cent, interest on the same. They cannot he forced to pay any more. Under the law the titles given to land as security for the oans are not valid. No farmer can pay more than 8 per cent., interest ami prosper. Even 8 per cent, is a very high interest. It seems remarkable that while the bonds of this State, which pay only4}*'percent., command a premium of 5 per cent, or more, farmers who have good real estate security cannot get money at 8 per cent. There must lie some reason for this which does not appear on the sur face. Does not the hornostcad law. render real estate security undesirable* We have hoard a great deal recently about the depression of trade in England and the healthy state of business in the United States. It is a littlo surprising, un der such circumstances, to learn that for the first six months of this year England made a larger relativo advance in trade than did this country—that her railroad and liank earnings increased in a greater ratio, and that of the increase in the ex ports of iron, steel, wool and cotton more than half came to the United States, in spite of the tariff. The attempt tho other dny of Jesse Pomeroy to escape from tlje prison in which he has been confined for fifteen years recalls to tho recollection of tho public one of the most remarkable criminals of our genera tion. Convicted of one murder and be lieved guilty of others, he was sentenced to death, but l>is youth was so extreme that the Governor of Massachusetts would not issue a warrant'for his execution. His at tempt to escape was nearly successful. He had been furnished with saws by somo one outside the jail. Senator Pugh, of Alabama, in speaking of tho projior running mate fpr Cleveland in the race of next year, said a Western politician should lie selected: that the‘‘sol dier business had played out. South as well ns North." This is a singular statement, in view of the fact that a large majority of the men elected to high position in the South first attracted attention as soldiers. The jKipularity of the Governor of liis own State as a candidate was basts! on the fact that he was “Private" Seay and a good soldier. Gov. Foraker’s admirers think that his violent and offensive language at Wheeling, W. Va., the other day has placed him abreast of Hlaine as a Presidential candi date. The Governor’s satellites apiicur to he alsiut os devoid of good sense and judg ment. ns he is. Foraker simply male an ex hibition of himself at Wheeling, and tlie cool-headed men of his party wtio were there know It and regret lu* conduct. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1887. Senator Stanford's Secret. Mr. Justice Field, having decided that the Pacific Railway Commission has no power to compel Senator Stanford to an swer questions, the work of the commission is probably, finished. It has failed to accomplish the most important thing that it was expected to accomplish, viz: to find out what became of certain large amounts of money which were received by the Pacific roads, but which are not accounted for on their books. The impression is that the money unac counted for was used to corrupt members of Congress and Htate Legislatures. Senator Stanford said tliat the money was not used for any improper purpose, but if it were not. why does he refuse to answer questions with re spect to it? The position which he takes, that the government has no right to know what became of the money, is hardly a ten able one. The government has a very large interest in the Pacific roads, and it has not been paid promptly what is annually due it from them. It would seem, therefore, as if the government had the right to know what becomes of all the earnings of the roods. Senator Stanford may succeed in keeping from the public information which relates to the disbursement of millions of dollars in which the government had an interest, but he cannot, remove the impression, caused by bis course, that the reason of his refusal is that the government has not been fairly dealt with. He may say that the millions which are unaccounted for were never im properly used, but as long as he remains silent with respect to what he did with the money he will rest under the suspicion that he and his associates in the Pacific roads have not acted honestly with the government. The truth about what became of the money may be concealed for a while, but it will reach the public eventually. If Senator Stanford were wise he would not hesitate to tell all he knows about the missing money at once. Discrimination in the Convict Camps. While the legislature is considering the convict, question, and investigating the charges of abuses at the convict camps, would it not be advisable to inquire whether there is discrimination in favor of white convicts? The charges of bad treatment come entirely from colored convicts, if we are not misinformed. The inference is that the white convicts have nothing to complain of. If this inference is correct it would be interesting to know whether the white con victs are being dealt with in accordance with their sentences. It will be remem bered that not very long ago there was a white prisoner in one of the camps who, it was said, was permitted to furnish his own meals, and was not required to perform any labor. It was stated in an Augusta paper a few days ago that a man who was convicted of mur der in this county, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, had escaped. Assum ing that the report of hi,s escape is correct, it would seem is if he had not been very closely guarded. Perhaps he also was per mitted to go and come as he pleased, and was treated with more consideration than the convict who is guilty of a less heinous offense, but who is friendless. There are several things in connection with the convict system that need a very thorough overhauling. The Legislature ap -1 iears to handle the complaints of abuses in a kid-glove sort of way, instead of taking hold of them with the vigor and determina tion that are necessary to bring about a radical reform. Denouncing the lease system and its abuses in speeches and in the press, may convince the people that it is a very bad system. The majority of them, however, are about convinced of that now. What is is needed is reform. Lot the lessees be made to understand that they are not above the law. Lot them be taught that abuses can not be practiced in the convict camps with impunity, and that it is not for them to >o disregard the sentences of tho courts as to make the life in the canijis of a few a soi t of pic-nic and of the muny one long torture. In the Cincinnati Stock Exchunge Satur day a broker rose to offer some of the pre ferred stock of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, which wax issued by Ives, it is claimed illegally. A lawyer represent ing the company immediately gnvo notice that the stock had been repudiated by the company, and was worthless, but in spite of this, according to a previous arrangement , the stock was bid off at 40c. This transac tion, perhaps, marks the beginning of suits against the road that will wreck what was once among the most valuable pieces of rail road property in the West. So also was Wabash, and Jay Gould is still rich and honored. Gen. Booth, the chief of the Salvation Army, has called for 5,000 volunteers to at tack the enemy in South Africa. Enlisting is brisk—with which the salary promised may have something to do—and soon the Salvation Army lads and lassies will lie tinkling their tambourines among the Zulus. The General deserves the t hunks of the civilised wmrld. It is to bo hoped he will send over recruiting officers to this coun try. The detachments of the Salvation Army here can tie spared A New York politician, suiil to be promi nent, but unnamed, has liecn talking to a reporter about Gov. Hill’s Presidential as pirations and his relations with Mr. Cleve land. He expressed the belief that the President, if re-elected, would sacrifice Hill and throw nil his influence in favor of Sec retary Whitney as his successor. It is much more probable that he will quietly at tend to his duties and not enter into a con spiracy for anybody’s advancement. A New York paper gives of little King don Gould’s baby dresses a description that must make the mothers of less fortunate youngsters envious. They are trimmed in lace that onco belonged to the Empress Eu genie and which cost #1,500 a yard. His cradle is of mother-of-pearl and gold. This is all very tine, but it is likely he will miss a lot of fun that he might have if a poorer man’s son. The Birmingham .If/s. in announcing a reduction of rents by thoElvton band Com |>any, saysthe “influence most potent in Bir mingham has taken n conservative lead in a crisis.” It will take a groat deal of con servative leading in the direction inilicab and to get Birmingham values down to the proper level. The Duke of Marllwough, perhaps the most disreputable member of the British iss-rage. is in New York, and will make the round of the watering place*. Will his high rank offset hi* had character in tlie eetiniatioa of exclusive New York and Bos ton society! CURRENT COMMENT. Foraker's Mouth. From the Ph iteuielphla Times (Ind.) Foraker's mouth isn't quite as dangerous as the toy fire-cracker, but it seems to go off with a more hilarious bang. Success a Lons Way Off. From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Hep). Really, the Prohibition party has gained an important victory already in New York. All parties there treat it with the respect accorded to an admitted power. And when it captures New York it will capture the Union. Trading in His Name. From the New York World ( Bern .) Col. Fred D. Grant has written to a Grand Army man at Nyack tliat he is pleased with the suggestion of his name for the Republican nomi nation for Secretary of State, and would accept u chosen. It is quite appropriate that a party which is living on its name should choose as its standard-bearer a man who is ready to do poli tical business on the name of his father. BRIGHT BITS. My love I would mask Were it not for her wiles. When she smiles in a basque And I bask in her smiles. —Boston Courier. Si mmer Dress for Man and Beast.— When, blooming in the garden beds. The flowers exhale their sweet perfume, And man his thinnest flannels sheds, The dog his summer pants assumes. —Boston Courier. Thik is how a gentleman got his wife when, in a tobacconist's shop, he asked a girl behind the counter, who happened to have red hair, if she would oblige him with a match. “With pleasure, if you will have a red headed one," she promptly replied, with such a sugges tive. demure smile that eventually the red headed match was handed over.— Kansas City Sun. Thk genial Sam Jones opened his first sermon in New York with the words: “People say to me, ‘Jones, why don’t you preach Christ? You only preach law.' To all such I say, ‘I)o you suppose 1 11 bring my God down here among your cutthroats?' " Sam never dared say t hat of Chicago people. All Hint he called them was "skunks/’—Chi cago Herald. Omaha Man (in Paris)—Do you mean to say you <lo not admire American women? Frenchmen —They an rather pretty to look at. but I do not like their voices. "What is the matter wiru them?'’ "Their voices are harsh." "Oh. well; you probably heard some of them talking to each other, about some other woman." Umafia World. First Omaha Guil— Dear me! the paper says Miss kamsey, a girl of 80. who goes to Cam bridge University, heat all the male students at the recent examinations Second Omaha Girl Well, Well! Took all the prizes? “i suppose so." "Poor girl! She must be terribly homely to he so smart.’ I — Omaha. World. Omaha Deacon See here, there must have been something the matter with that cake you furnished for our little picnic. My children are half sick. Omaha Baker That cake was all right when it left here. What kind of paper did you wrap it in? Green paper? "No, I was in too much of a hurry to look for paper and just put the cake in the contribution box and carried it that way." "No wonder they are sick. You should never out cake in things that are used for copper."— Omaha World. ()maha Citizen —President. Cleveland is a good deal of a Mugwump, isn't he? Omaha Statesman That 's just what he is, a Mugwump of the worst kind. “Yes, I know a case in which some of the big gest statesmen in Chicago went to him and asked to have one of the hardest party workers there appointed to the marshalship of Northern Illinois, and the IVesirlent turned right around and appointed another man." "Just like him Who was the man they wanted appointed?" "McGarigle." l Omaha World. "Doyou swear?" asked a ministerial looking man of a sailor ou the dock. “Pfptty often," was the reply. "Drink?" "- -m—yes. I git dry onct in a while." "Gamble?" "When th' v'yage’s over I slinks a few dices." "Chew tobacco?" "Look here, shipmate, ain't you gittin' kind'r cur'ous?" * Answer me that; do you chew tobacco?" "Wa al, yes, I do." "That 's what I wanted to get at, and I meant to do it in a soothing, gentlemanly way, as it were. Gimme a chew, will you?"— Puck. PERSONAL. Pauline Lucca is to come to America in April next. (Jen. Joseph E. Johnston and R. M. McLane, Minister to France, are in New York. Mrs. Beecher welcomed Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, on his arrival in New York Friday. He will he given a trial in the Plymouth pulpit. Craio Tolliver's friends were “moved to tears" at Morehead, Ky.. on Sunday night by the free-lance “Mountain Evangelist," Rev. George O. Barnes. At one point in the sermon “Boone Logan, who was prevent with white face and twitching muscles, left the house." James Tudor Tallcott, who died in Connecti citt Inst week, was a well known man in the old stage coach days. He used to drive the stag** fr>*m Hartford to Boston, a distance of ninety six miles, and seldom took more than ten hours to make the journey. It is wild that Tallcott is the last of the stage drivers who, in the days before railroad travel began, were important meinl>ei*s of New England societj*. It is a bit odd. but Paymaster G. R. Watkins, of the United States Navy, embezzler, now in the San Quentin (Cal. > penitentiary under sen tence of hard labor for three years, actually draws a salary of $993 a year while in prison. Under the conditions of his sentence he will be continued on half pay until the expiration of the three years, when he will lip dismissed in disgrace from Uncle Sani's service. (Jen. Brandreth, Commissary Geperal of Subsistence on Gov. Hill's staff, is only 38 years of age. He Is a son of Brandreth. the famous pill manufacturer, and has a beautiful place nt Sing Sing. He is a handsome, well educated young limn, has traveled extensively in Europe, and knows how to enioy money at nis disposal. His yacht, the Camilla, on which he recently entertained Gov. Hill, is a tine screw propeller, and cost its owner about $B,OOO. An interesting individual now in Boston uses the following name and address: “George R. lAwrenoe, original tramp printer, United States." He was bom iu Saratoga. N. Y., seventy five years ago. Ever since boyhood lie has been a Journeyman printer He has set type in Europe, Asia. Africa, the West India Islands and in nearly every State and Territory in the United States. lie is a man of great intelligence, an interesting talker and a clever typo. “Ed*' Rick relates in the Chicago Herald that when Herr von Bulow, the pianist, was in Bos ton, playing in concerts, Napier Lowthioji. the musical director nt the Boston Theatre, intro duced Rice, saying: “Herr von Bulow, this is Mr. Ed. Rice, a Boston man, who knows noth ing about music whatever, but who has written two operas." “So?" said Von Bulow, inter rogatively. “Vc haf also in tturojie a snentle man who knows netting about moosic, mid haf written already plenty operas - Meester Verdi." “John the giant Scotch ('roe half breed Premier of Manitoba," is thus described by the St. John(N. B.) Tvleyraph . "Heis about 40 yAr* of age and weighs about 3H pounds, lit* was a member of the first Manit >lm Execu tive from 1871 to 1874, when he resigned with his colleagues. Subsequently he became Provin cial Secretary in 187 ft, and Minister f Public Works iu the following year. In 187 *he formed anew administration in which, with the Pre miers!.tp. he vm Provincial Trea urer. By great natural shrewdness and ability, with a thorough knowledge of the French speaking half-breed element, and aided by th * Conserva tive at Ottawa, he has been able to hold the reins of office till the present time. Nor quny i* a Tory, who combined Indian cunning and want of v eracity with some better qualities. IBs admirers think him only second to Sir John Macdonald in leadership and rosomves." Prior. Virchow, at a recent meeting of the Medtzlnische Uosellselmft, gave an account of a "Hunger-Virtues" of the early part of the Inst century. The Polish nobleman Bernhard us fat and during the whole forty days of Lent, only occasionally wetting the surface of his tongue with a lltti** sweet syrup and water. Dr. Vir chow showed a portrait of the “faster.' 1 Kir rowed from the Hartmann collection. It was painted in 1719, and IWpMtßtad the m.->f wretched object, made up of mere skin and bone, sitting with croonvl arms in a dejected attitude. Dr. Voss, the director of the Koval Museum at Berllu, said that this portrait for merly hung in the guest room of the inn “Zum Hirsch," In Plan, when* it seems to have been u*ml by way of caution to the guests, as if to impress them with the appalling n*mjlt of ( uegUWmg to cat a gin*! dinner An extract from the "K ire hen prof okoll' of the tairlsh of Ploti was also produced recording the long f*wt lugs sad the death of Bernhardu*. Related to Mrs. Partington. From the Buffalo Times. A good story is toM of a woman who could not uud irstand English as well as many others, nor could she* speak it well. A certain minister needed a sen ant at his home, and in response to an advertisement a well-dressed young woman called upon him. The divine asked if she had any recommendations. The young woman referred him to the lady whose English was defective. She had given her friend a pretty good character, when the minister asked: ‘Are you sure that she is neat and tidy?" “Well, answered the woman, ‘Tm not posi tive that she can knit a tidy, but I know that she can crochet some." The minister hastened home so well pleased that he hired the girl without further question ing. The Judge Enforced His Own Order. From the Detroit Free Press . It was ig Sabine county, Texas, a few years l>efore the late war. Judge R was holding court on the second floor of a building. On the first floor a gambling bank was in full blast, and the players annoyed the court very much by tbeir wrangling. After several ineffectual attempts by the officer of the court to enforce order, the juclae left his bench, entered the gambling rqom and toqjt a hand in in the game. An hour later he returned co the court room and, throwing a small sack of money on his desk, placidly remarked: “This court has got to have order, and I'm going to have it even if 1 have to bust the bank again every day." The court had strict order during the re mainder of the session. Medical Humor. From the Texas Siftings. The celebrated French physician, Ricord. was one day walking along tne Boulevard in Paris when he met an old gentleman who was very rich, but who was at the same time noted for his extreme stinginess. The old man, who was somewhat of a hjpochondriac, imagined that he could get some* medical advice from Ricord without paying for it. ‘Doctor, I am feeling very poorly." “Where do you suffer most?" “In my slomach, Doctor. ’* “Ah, that's bad. Please shut your eyes. That's right. Now' put out your tongue, sol can examine it closely." The invalid did as he was told. After he had waited patiently for about ten minutes, he opened bis eyes, and found himself surrounded by a crowd, who supposed that he was crazy. Dr. Ricord, in the meantime, had disappeared. Tea Worth Tasting. From the New York Star. On a recent visit to San Francisco. Mrs. Shep herd. a daughter of the late William H. Van derbilt, together with her husband and a party of friends, made a tour of Chinatown, while in this section of the city, it occurred to the party to stopand lunch at a Chinese restaurant, ami, selecting one known to be first-class, en tered and prepared to do justice to the dainties and luxuries w’hich were to be placed before them at the discretion of the proprietor. He ln*gaii the menu with what is knowu as bird's nest soup, for which the price charged is per plate. This was followed by shark's fiins at $1 per plate. Several other delicacies were served up at equally moderate prices, all of which seemed to be rel ished bv the quests. The greatest luxury of all. and the one most enjoyed, was the tea. which the proprietor informed his guests was what is knowu as Emperor's tea, ana is never imported to this country. It is put up in small parcels just sufficient to make one cup of tea. These parcels consist of a small piece of wood or bamboo about the size of an ordinary match or toothpick, and the tea is tied on this little match by means of a fine silken thread. This is placed in a cup, which is then filled with boil ing h ;t water and allowed to steep for a few moments, when it is ready for use. The aroma arising from the tea is something delicious and entirely unknown to us. Mi's Shepherd was anxious to purchase some of this tea, and bar gained with Mr. Chinaman, who consented to sell all he had on hand (only a few pounds) for $7 a pound. Miss Nelson’s Bug. From the New Haven Register. Miss Emily Nelson, of Bridgeport, has received a present from Merida, Yucatan, in the shape of an educated jeweled bug. It has a harness of gold and is jeweled with precious stones, and is the gift of Signora Fuentes, of Merida, Yuca tan, whose daughter, Senorita Evelie y Fuentes, has passed the last three year’s as a pupil at Miss Nelson's seminary on Golden Hill. Her bestowal of the live, educated, jeweled bug as a gift is considered in Yucatan as a high distinc tion. The bugs are extremely difficult to edu cate, and are looked upon by the lower classes as the particular property of royalty. Miss Nelson is very prouu and justly very happy over her bug, and wears it constantly while driving or out shopping. The insect is about the size of an ordinary black beetle. Around its body is firmly fastened a gold band. Another gold strap is riveted to Jthis and passed dowm the back, around and under the body, and is welded upon the under si\e to the gold belt encircling the body. Upon the back are tiny jewels set in gold and fastened into the shell. The coloring of the shell is a brilliant, sparkliug Nile green, edged off with black. The movement of the bug gives flashes of variegated colors which are re markably pretty aud attractive. Upon the un der side is fastened a delicate gold chain, w hich in turn is attached to a chased brooch. This can l>e pinned upon any part of the dress. Miss Nelson says these bugs live for a number of years if not exposed to the rigors of northern climes. She fastens hers at the belt, and the jew'eled beauty goes wandering around among the garniture of roses, flowers ami laces worn upon her corsage. The bug does not seem to be timid, but crawls tranquilly about oblivious to the admiration he creates. E Pluribus Unum. Maurice Thompson in the American Magazine. The legend set upon our shield Brims with grand meaning: All in one, Hearts welded, souls together run At white heat on the battle-field. One shiniug way for all to take, ( >ne oath, one hope, one purpose grand, < >ne flag for all in all the land. Upheld by ail for Freedom's sake. One sign set in the central sky, l end of all men alike, a name Written in empyrean flame By the bold hand of Destiny! That legend naught could dim or mar: Though bathed in tears and hid in smoke, Forth from the local storm it broke, A bow above the cloud of war. We read it pensively and knew Some element of precious gain Had come to it from wounds and pain. And mightily its meaning grew. And so we keep upon our shield The deathless legend: All in one, Hearts welded, souls together n n At white heat on the battle-rteld. A myriad songs together thrown Across old griefs of bate, an* blent, Like starlight in the firmament. And round the world in triumph blown. Our starry unity of stars (lives man a manly tnasterhood, Our law of love engrossed in blood Is sealed with burning bullet-scars! How the United States Treasurer Re lieved Himself of an Office Seeker. )*Yom the Morten Ik Hour. Ever since the Hon. James W. Hyatt, of Norwalk, was appointed Treasurer* of the United States he ha- had no end of applications tor positions in his Department. Quite a num ber of Norwalk gentlemen have hinted to him that they would be willing to remove to Wash iugton. but at this writing the station agent has not reported any great increase in the sale of tickets for that city. During his recent visit to Norwalk, Treasurer Hyatt hap|>ened to get caught alone with one of the most, persistent office seekers be had vet run across. Tile con versation was slowly, but surely, getting around to the subject nearest the applicant’s heart when the Treasurer, rather abruptly, turned to him and said: “Mr Brown, how would you like to go into something new where there is plenty of money?" Mr. Brown could hardly believe his senses. His eyes fairly glistened ns he hitched his chair nearer tile Treasurer's and signified his readi ness to go into anything where there was money, Mr. Hyatt crossed one leg over the other, took his glasses from his none and twirled them carelessly around the fore linger of his right hand, and then he leaned over toward Mr. Brown and said in a confidential sort of wav: "You come to Washington with me, ana " "Yes, Mr. Hyatt, I’ll go any where with vou." "You come to Washington with me, 1, re peated Mr Hyatt, “and I’ll let you go into the Treasury vaults where millions of dollars are stored. “Oh! fh! yes, Mr. Hyatt, rood ioke; mighty good Joke, Mr. Hyatt; good night, confound you, sir. good night!" and the disappointed office seeker was gone. Then Mr Hyatt turned woariiy to the books of his horse railway comj>any to see how mauy bushels of oats Billy Mullen had fed the horses since June |. In traveling, use a few drops of Brown's Gin ger in Hm water you drink Frederick Browu, Philadelphia, IM, ITEMS OF INTEREST. West Point, Ga., can boast of more men weigh iug 200 pounds than any town in this country. The Cologne Gazette says that Germany has profited by the Boulanger craze, for from Co logne no less than 70,n00 pictures of Boulanger was sent to Paris, which sold readily at 2J-£f. apiece. In Spain 90,000 bells send forth their summons to pra3’ers from the steeples of 2-1,000 churches. The weight of these bells amounts to something like 95.000,000 of Spunish pounds, and the value about 10,000,000 francs. The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, always takes the zither with her whenever she visits her mother, the Duchess Budovieo of Bavaria, who is very fond of hearing her daughter perform on that instrument. The Empress received the first instruction in zither playing from her father, and sulwequently took lessons of the first masters of Vienna. ‘‘The facts are incontestable that the negro laborer is far less competent now in the simple manual execution than he was twenty-five years ago," the Birmingham (Ala.) Age thinks. ‘Negro plowmen, carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, coach drivers, cooks, etc., are not to be compared now w ith the standard of the race in those occupations in 1860. We do not risk anything, therefore, in saying there is a wider divergence of the races now than ever before." S. S. Hollingsworth, of Vincennes, Ind., the defaulting treasurer of Knox county, who stoic SBO,OOO, was sentenced a year ago to three years in prison. Since Warden Patton's accession, he has been allowed to ride about town in a buggy alone, enter barrooms, smoke cigars, walk on the streets, and appear to nil intents like a free man. lie has been arrested at the instance of the indignant citizens and lodged in the city jail. Warden Patton was also arrested for al lowing a convict to lx? at large. A newspaper at Bogota reports that the gold which is now being dug out of the ancient ceme teries at Hilandia and other places near Pereira, in Cauca. has led more than 1,000 workmen to flock to that snot, and a town has sprung up there within the past four years which now con tains more than 50,(XX) inhabitants. These people are almost all Antioouians. and the majority of them have obtained sufficient gold to render themselves and their families inde pendent of work the remainder of their lives. A young Persian nobleman by the name of Hassan Dshenedelei arrived recently at Warsaw, after traveling the entire distance from Teheran to Warsaw on foot. He had made a wager to walk from Teheran to Paris in eight months, and has so far consumed six and a half months op his trip. From Moscow to Warsaw he walked along the railroad track. He has no traveling companion: the guarantee for the faithful per formance of his undertaking lies in a sacred oath taken by him before starting which binds him to use no conveyance of any kind A recognized authority on sugar estimates that the world's production of the article in 1886-'B7 is about 440,000 tons larger than that of the preceding year. He thinks, however, that this fact will be compensated by an in creased consumption, most of which he credits to Europe and North America. The stocks at the beginning of last July (visible supply) are stated to have been about 832.000 tons, against 944,000 tons one year previously, and 960,000 tons two years ago. After making several minor allowances, which need not be stated in detail, it is estimated that the total stocks were 42,000 tons less this midsummer than they were at the same date in 1886. The Government of Colombia is authorized to grant a reward of SIO,OOO in silver to every one w’ho discovers a new’ merchantable article of export. Under this law Senor Rafael Vane gas has filed two claims, one for the discovery and employment of a valuable medicinal plant; the second for the discovery that wild cocoa trees exist in profusion in the virgin forests, which stretches from the waters of the Ariari down to the rivero Guaval*?ro. If investigation should prove the correctness of this statement, it will throw millions of dollars annually into Colombia, and place a valuable article within the reach of many w r ho are now’ deprived of the use of it owing to the price. An interesting table has been compiled by the Railway Age of the most destructive railway accidents for the past forty years. From this it appears that the number of very serious acci dents in the United States was eaualled, if not exceeded, by those of foreign countries. For ex ample. those in which sixty or more persons were killed w’ere in America as follows: July 17, 1856, Philadelphia and Reading railroad, at Campbill, Pa., collision. 66 killed, 100 injured; July 15, 1864. Erie railroad, at Port Jervis. N. Y.. head collision, 60 killed and 120 injured; Dec. 29, 1876, Shore and Michigan Southern, at Ashtabula, <>., broken bridge, about 80 killed, 60 injured; and the Chatsworth disaster with 77 killed and 130 injured. On foreign railways during the same period there were the follow ing: March 17, 1857, Great Western of Canada at the Des Jardines canal, by a broken bridge, 60 killed. 30 injured: .Tune 29. 1864, Grand Trunk of Canada, at Richelieu river, by an open draw - bridge. 86 killed, “hundreds" injured; Dec. 38, 1879, North British railway, at the Tay Bridge, by derailment, 74 killed: June 23, 1881, Morelis railroad, at San Antonio river, by a broken bridge, 200 killed; June 8, 1885, at Kosleff. Rus sia, train derailed by wreckers, 70 killed and wounded. The late Agostino Depretis, Prime Minister of Italy, was a man of amiable temperament, as this story will show. He used to snore loudly. Once when at Casale, he lodged at the Rosa Rossa, a second-rate inn. An ex-official, who was at Casale for the purpose of applying for employment, had a room next to that occupied by the Minister. Being disturbed during the night by the loud snoring of his neighbor, be first threw his boots at the wall, and then pro ceeded to complain in rather insolent terms, loud enough to penetrate into the next room. Signor Depretis apologized, and in order to he no longer a disturbance, lighted his candle and began to read a book. The next morning the Minister sent a waiter to make his excuses to his neigbor. "Who is the beast?” asked (he ex-official. "The 'beast' is the Minister, Signor Dei) ret is." replied the waiter. The poor ex offlicial almost had an apoplectic fit. He. in turn, sent innumerable excuses to Signor De pretis, who, receiving him afterward, told him that he should lie employed as he desired, "more especially,” he continued, "because last night you caused mo to read something I had never had an opportunity of reading liefore." "What was that, may I ask?" "The r l)ame aux Camelias',” replied the Minister. The Hon. Francis Wharton's "Digest of the International Law of the United States” re ceives high praise from one of the best of the English quarterlies. The Edinburgh. The re viewer cites it as another example of the superiority of American legal literature over that of England, and commends the action of Congress in ordering the compilation of this volume. He laments the absence of a similar record from official archives of the diplomacy of England, anil frankly concedes the inferiority of his country in legal writings and especially the literature of international law. Dr. Whar ton he compliments inu nmeasured terms, say ing that the Digest is another volume added to the list of standard works which are chiefly as sociated with the names of Keul. Story and Wheaton. The review which follows this I ribute to the learned compiler Is a critical ac count of American diplomacy from the English point of view with severe strictures upon vari ous efforts of the State Department to evade the C’layton-Bulwer treaty. Dr. Wharton re ceives throughout most generous treatment, the reviewer apparently being lost, in admira tion of his grasp of the subject. The disputa tious Senators who considered the printing of the "Digest" a sheer waste of money will lie amazed by this evidence of foreign apprecia tion. One of the great disadvantages that Nevada has always labored under is the scarcity of water. Not one of her own streams empties directly or indirectly into any largo body of water, but all disappear, sink, as it seems, into some small lake, or directly into the ground. This makes the water very brackish and un pleasant, as in the process of evaporation all the saline and alkaline matter is left in the bed of the stream, and the water thus becomes worse every year. Recently a very peculiar disease has been observed in the regions about lflocbe, which threatens to make residence in Nevada even more undesirable than it lias hitherto been considered to be. Among the very old residents, and especially among the few children who have been iKirn in that district, a marked tendency to enlargement of the throat has been observed, accompanied nt times by sharp pains The direvse resembles the Swiss goitre in many respects, with painful inflammation that is not characteristic of the goitre. Those who have used the alkali water most freely through any length ot time are most subject t<> it. and tbs physicians ascribe the disnase entirely to Ihe water, aid have not found any remedy. Obldren are especially liable to tlrs disorder, and It has often proved fatal. 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